4o8 Of Cap. John VpiLLiFsti. 



dertaken \yithany diftio.ieft View of feizing or ap- 

 propriating the Effects to themfelyes-, which pru? 

 dent Advice prevailM, and he and three more wer^ 

 piade Prifoners, and fecured. 



The Work being done, they w^it about Ship, al- 

 tered tlie Courfe from Ne-fpfaundland to Bo ft on y and 

 arrived fafe the 3d of May toYiomxi^^ to the great 

 Joy of that Province. 



Oil the T 2th of ^ay^ ^ special Court of Ad- 

 iniralty was held for the Tryal of thef^ Py rates, 

 when John Filmorey Edward Cheefemany John Comhs^ 

 Henry GileSy Charles Ivymayy John Bootmany and Hen^ 

 ry Vayney the feven that confederated together for 

 the Pyrates Deftruftion, were honoifrably acquit- 

 ted as ^Jfo three French Men, John BaptUy Peter Taf- 

 fer)y and l[dac Lajfeny and three Negroes, PedrOy Franr 

 cifco^ and flerrc^. And John Rofe Archery the Quarter- 

 m^fieif^y William WhitCy William Taylor y znd William 

 ThlllifSy were condemned the two latter were re^ 

 pn'eved .for a Year and a Day, in order to be re- 

 commended (though 1 don't know for whatj as Oh- 

 jefts of his Majefty's Mercy, The two former were 

 executed on the 2d of Juney and,dyM very penitent- 

 ly, making the following Declarations at the Place 

 of Execution, with the Alfiflance of two grave Dif 

 vines that attended them, 



Xhe dying Declarations of John Rofe Archer 

 /^^w J William White, on the Day of their Exe- 

 tion at Bofton, June 2,* 1724, for the Crimes 

 of Piracy. 



Fir ft, feparately, of Archer. 



I Greatly bewail my Profanations of the Lord's 

 Day, and my Difobedience to my Parents. 

 " Andmy Curfmg ^nd Swearing, and my blafpq^- 

 ming the Name of the glorious God, 



J - V ' Unto 



